Walter Mosley Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.
I think it's some kind of meeting of energies that causes what we see, and that part of those energies emanate from our lifeforces, our minds.
Asking a Southern woman for plain hospitality was like winking at a leprechaun: She had to give up her pot of gold no matter what.
I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.
When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand.
You have made Commerce a god that weighs on humanity like a twenty-four-pound boil on a man's back (117-118)
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.
He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world's excuses.
But literacy didn't make you smart, just like, as Twill had already figured out, money didn't make you rich.
I hit him more times than necessary but by then my actions were mostly chemical, like a soldier ant or a teenager in love.
Oster blender. I poured that concoction into a griddle of sizzling butter, then sprinkled diced strawberries on the wet side. Three
My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
They want to hold on to you and your people. They have isolated the ones who might grow powerful and overthrow their debauched reign.
It's hard for a man to understand a woman because a man just desires her; but women, most of them anyway, desire desire.
I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary calibre. People read for entertainment.
Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.
Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.
That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more than a thousand years.
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.
The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.
I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on, but they're explorers.
Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.
I don't give a fuck what you're trying to do or what you want. I'd send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick.
All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.
Maybe that's what they're afraid of. Maybe they don't want these children to make up their own minds. Maybe if they did that, the world would change.
There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.
Sometimes you might forget who you are and where, but that's okay because there's always somebody around that's happy to remind you.
I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.